Taylor Kane

“I have been passionate about creative writing since I was young and have read all the old poetry that I’ve been able to get my hands on – which possibly explains my old-timey-tragic-poet style.”

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A Poet’s Voice

I have a poet’s voice.

Sad, and low – a melting pot of accents and tonation poached from literature. 

My pitch never raises above a soft drone, as if I am trying to avoid waking a sleeping child.

Listening to me, you cannot tell where I have come from; only where I have been.

I have been laying in the pages of Poe, Frost, Ginsberg – anything but my own thoughts. 

I have left behind all origin, for it does not matter where I have come from, only what I have read.

I have reached into my chest and torn my voice from its chords and replaced it with the essence of others, my insides a haphazard patchwork quilt of similar suffering.

 I am an echo of words already spoken.

My voice is not my own.

I have a poet’s voice.

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